Penholder.



No. r/96,626. v PATENTED A6678. 1905. w. A. BOYGB.

Y PENHOLDER. APPLICATION FILED MAY'Q. 1905.

UNITED STATES PATENT oEEIoE.

WILLIE A. BOYCE, OF GRANITE CANYON, WYOMING.

PENHOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 8, 1905.

Application filed May 9, 1905. Serial No. 259,540.

hereby declare the following to be a full, clear,`

and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to penholder-s, and more particularly to that variety of penholder provided with means for readily extracting the pen-point without soiling or injuring the hands of the manipulator.

Another object of my invention is to provide an exceedingly simple, inexpensive, durable, and eficient penholder of such character that a sliding movement of one element thereof will eject the pen-point from its holder.

With these and other objects in view the present invention consists in the combination and arrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter more fully described, shown in the accompanying drawings, and'particularly pointed out in the appended claim.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is an elevation o my invention ready for use. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section through the parts in releasing positions. Fig. 3 is a transverse section through the sleeve.

Referring now more particularly to the accompanying drawings, the reference character l designates the body of the penholder, whose inner end. is provided with the usual stub 2,' secured thereto in any suitable manner and between which stub and a sliding sleeve 3 the pen-point is tted for u se.

The sleeve 3 alluded to above is formed of a single piece of any suitable material, the upper face of the sleeve being provided with a longitudinal slot 4 intermediate its ends, projecting through which latter is a stop 5,' secured to the back of the body of the penholder. This stop 5 is arranged with the slot 4 of the sleeve to limit the forward and backward sliding movement of the latter. It will be seen that the forward end of the sleeve 3 in advance of the slot 4 is of peculiar formation in that the forward end is pinched or contracted to bring the corresponding faces of the sleeve toward each other to form a guide 6 for the spring 7, whose rear end is secured in any suitable manner to the body portion 1 of the penholder and in alinement and beneath the aforesaid slot 4, the free end of the spring projecting upwardly toward the inner end of the instrument. l

` Reference to the drawings will disclose that the pen-point 8 is fitted between the stub 2 and the upper pinched or contracted portion of the sleeve 3, the spring 7 being arranged thereabove with its free end in engagement with the upper inner face of the guide 6.

`Now if a pen-point has become uniitted for use and it is desired to replace the same by a -new one it is only necessary to take hold of the outer end of the body l of the holder with one hand and with the other hand slide the sleeve 3 rearwardly upon the body 1, when the pen-point will be ejected by the time, if not before, the forward enol of the slot 4 has reached its limit of rearward movement of contact with the aforesaid stop 5. The sleeve 3 will then be pressed forward, when a new pen-point may be fitted between the stub 2 and the forward end of the sleeve 3. The free end Lof the spring 7 when the sleeve 3 is pushed forwardly exerts pressure upon the forward end of the latter to hold the same vagainst rearward displacement during use of and the contracted portion of the sleeve to hold the latter in its forward position.

In testimony whereof I afix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

WILLIE A. BOYCE.

Vitnesses LEE A. BOYCE, Mrs. WILLIAM BoYoE. 

